Mike Adams (baseball)

Nothing like a meaningless spring training game in the final days of the exhibition season to take the breath right out of a team. Yasiel Puig is only the Dodgers' most exciting, charismatic, controversial player — not to mention their best remaining right-handed power hitter — so imagine their little hearts stopping Thursday night at Angel Stadium when he collapsed in a heap in right field after a collision with second baseman Howie Kendrick. The two had failed to communicate on a Mike Trout popup, Kendrick's left elbow striking the face and throat of Puig as he belatedly dived for the ball. Puig went down and remained spread on the turf, his face buried in the...

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